With growing interest for fifth-generation or 5G technology in Myanmar, Ooredoo Myanmar has recently taken another step forward to bring the latest development to the nation by signing an agreement with China’s ZTE Corporation, said the firm’s acting chief executive Alok Verma.

WITH MAJOR infrastructure and logistics initiatives being pushed, on top of being home to seven million people, foreign investors should not hesitate to invest in Yangon, officials told the Yangon Investment Forum 2019 on Friday.

The global population is growing at an alarming rate – with roughly 83 million people being added to the world’s population every year according to a United Nations report. This poses a number of challenges around sustainability including the need for more food and meat.

SINGAPORE has attracted high-tech manufacturers with incentives and a well-educated workforce, but growing demands for highly skilled labour combined with government moves to curb numbers of foreign workers may mean a tougher path ahead.

THE growing importance of 5G, artificial intelligence, voice recognition and connectivity may be a double-edged sword for South Korean tech companies—it allows them to maintain the upper hand in the sector but also provides room for a growing number of competitors, according to organizers of IFA Berlin, Europe’s largest consumer electronics show.

Amazon Global Selling has set up a team in Thailand to focus on helping Thai businesses capture the global cross-border business-to-customer (B2C) e-commerce, which is growing strongly and is expected to reach US$998 billion (Bt31.8 trillion) in 2020.

SOUTH KOREA is planning to increase the proportion of energy generated from renewable sources to as much as 35- per-cent of the total by 2040 in response to growing environmental concerns, the government last Friday.

In response to the growing cash flow in Myanmar’s food and beverage industry, Code2LAB Pte Ltd, a local technology company, has brought two innovative solutions to the market to help digitise the nation’s restaurant industry, according to Min Zeya Phyo, the firm’s founder and chief executive.

Fliggy, the travel service platform of Alibaba Group, has launched its Fliggy Buy service, which offers overseas merchants a new solution to capture opportunities presented by the growing purchasing power of China’s outbound travellers.